Some novels read as if they were written for the movies and, even if that's not true of Tobias Buckell's Hurricane Fever, this is certainly a book written by an author with an eye for the dramatically visual. The story opens with an incident of apparent industrial espionage gone wrong, and a chase scene that would comfortably grace any James Bond film. The story then jumps to the wonderfully enigmatic Rasta, Roo Jones, a former spy seeing out his retirement in a Caribbean transformed by rising sea levels and global warming-fed intensified hurricane seasons. A recorded message from an old friend stirs Roo out of retirement: "If you're getting this message from me, it means I'm dead." As the storms close in, Roo sets out for justice and gets drawn into a conspiracy of the super-rich that could have drastic consequences for the world. The cover quote from John Scalzi says Buckell is stretching the horizons of science fiction. Well, no, not really, but he does write a fine, no-frills ecological technothriller, complete with a mad, bad villain, fast-paced action and a race against the clock finale.